The experience of every day shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend. The Edinburgh Annual Register - Seite 747herausgegeben von - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Sir Charles William Pasley - 1810 - 822 Seiten
...Wellington observes, in his letter to Lord Wellesley, dated the 12th of August, 1809, " it is useless to " complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...cause of Spain can " depend. But besides this want of good will, which can " easily be traced to the temper and disposition of the Ge~ " neral commanding... | |
| Sir Charles William Pasley - 1811 - 570 Seiten
...Wellington observes, in his letter to Lord Wellesley, dated the 12th of August, 1809, " it is useless to " complain; but we are .certainly not treated as...less as the only .prop on which the cause of Spain «1 can depend. But besides this want of good will, which " can easily be traced to the temper and... | |
| Robert Southey - 1827 - 836 Seiten
...on the way, and deprived of all his .barley and part of his bread by a detachment of Spanish horse. Whatever momentary irritation might be occasioned...the British ambassador, " to complain ; but we are not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend. But, besides... | |
| Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1834 - 606 Seiten
...shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. ' It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause in Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, which can easily be traced to the temper and... | |
| William Walton - 1837 - 446 Seiten
...English envoy on the subject of defective supplies, Sir Arthur Wellesley said : — " It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend." The Marquis of Wellesley suspected some members of the junta of treason, and all of them of insincerity.... | |
| Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1838 - 620 Seiten
...shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. ' It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause in Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, which can easily be traced to the temper and... | |
| Marquess Richard Wellesley Wellesley - 1838 - 296 Seiten
...shews the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...cause of Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, (which can easily be traced to the temper and disposition of the general commanding the... | |
| Martin Andrew Sharp Hume - 1900 - 618 Seiten
...his brother the Marquis of Wellesley, at this time English ambassador to the Junta. "It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends,...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend." And again, " I am much afraid from what I have seen of the proceedings of the Central Junta, that in... | |
| John Kenneth Severn - 2007 - 628 Seiten
...in a schoolyard brawl, hurled his own battery of accusations at the Spanish allies. "It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends,...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend," he wrote to his brother in great frustration.11 In Seville, Wellesley found an atmosphere quite different... | |
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